Core Data Data Storage and Management for IOS, OS X, and ICloud

Name: Core Data Data Storage and Management for IOS, OS X, and ICloud
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ISBN: 9781937785086

ISBN-10: 1937785084

ISBN-13: 9781937785086

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Marcus S. Zarra

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Core Data is intricate, powerful, necessary - and this book is your guide to harnessing its power. Core Data is Apple's recommended way to persist data: it's easy to use, built-in, and integrated with iCloud. You'll learn fundamental Core Data principles such as thread and memory management, and you'll discover how to use Core Data in your iPhone, iPad, and OS X projects by using NSPredicate to filter data and adding iCloud to your applications.What You Need:Mac OS X Mountain Lion and iOS 6Cocoa expert Marcus Zarra walks you through developing a full-featured application based around the Core Data APIs. You'll build up a single application throughout the book, learning key Core Data…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, The
Publication date: 2/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Marcus Zarrahas been developing for the better part of 25 years in a professional capacity and has been doing Cocoa development for the last 6 years. He has released one OS X application that utilizes Core Animation, one Cocoa Touch application that utilizes Core Animation and is working on at least two other applications utilizing it. In addition, he writes for the ldquo;Cocoa Is My Girlfriendrdquo; blog which demonstrates usage of Core Animation along with other coding examples.Matt Longhas been in the software industry since 1996. He has developed software with a vast array of technologies and platforms in addition to OS X and the iPhone including Unix and Microsoft Windows and Microsoft…



Introduction



Under the Hood of Core Data



NSManagedObjectModel



NSPersistentStoreCoordinator



NSManagedObjectContext



NSManagedObject



NSFetchRequest



NSSortDescriptor



Fetched Properties



Wrapping Up



iOS: NSFetchedResultsController



How to Use the NSFetchedResultsController



Under the Hood of the NSFetchedResultsController



Building Our Own: ZSContextWatcher



Wrapping Up



Versioning and Migration



Some Maintenance Before We Migrate



A Simple Migration



The Difference Between Light and Heavy Migrations



A Heavy/Manual Migration



Fundamentals of Core Data Versioning



Progressive Data Migration (An Academic Exercise)



Wrapping Up



Performance Tuning



Persistent Store Types



Optimizing Your Data Model



Fetching



Faulting



Access Patterns



Wrapping Up



Threading



Why Isn't Core Data Thread-Safe?



Creating Multiple Contexts



Exporting Recipes



Importing Recipes



Parent-Child NSManagedObjectContext Instances



Wrapping Up



Using iCloud



Introducing the UIManagedDocument



Direct NSManagedObjectContext to iCloud



Consuming Changes from iCloud



Under the Hood



Migrating an Existing Application



Desktop iCloud Integration



Data Quantities



Sharing Data Between iOS and OS X



Wrapping Up



Adding a Desktop Foundation



Our Application



Our Application Design



Sharing the Data Model



Building the Controller Layer



Building the User Interface



Adding a Splash of Code



Wrapping Up



OS X: Bindings, KVC, and KVO



Key Value Coding



Key Value Observing



Cocoa Bindings and Core Data



Other Interface Elements That Use KVO, KVC, and Core Data



Wrapping Up



Spotlight, Quick Look, and Core Data



Integrating with Spotlight



Integrating with Quick Look



Putting It All Together



Wrapping Up



Dynamic Parameters



Bunching the Xcode Example Project



The DocumentPreferences Object



Wrapping Up



Distributed Core Data



Building the Server



Building the Client



Testing the Networking Code



Wrapping Up



Building a Foundation



The Storyboard



The Recipe List



The Recipe Detail



The Edit Workflow



Ready for Core Data



Macros in the Precompiled Header



Where Are the Macros?



What Do They Do?


Bibliography


Index